Showing 1 - 10 of 4,379
channel. This work studies the pricing and assortment decisions in such a supply chain in the presence of inventory costs. In … manufacturer and the retailer. This model produces several insights into the optimal pricing strategies of the manufacturer. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190770
We present an analytical framework for understanding what makes a product category more conducive for store brand introduction. We also investigate market characteristics that help explain differences in store brand market share across product categories. Our findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009204395
Consider a retailer who sells perishable seasonal products with uncertain demand. Due to the short sales season and long replenishment lead times associated with such products, the retailer is unable to update demand forecasts by using actual sales data generated from the early part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009218425
Gasoline retail markets have traditionally attracted a lot of attention from researchers and policy makers. This entry reviews a set of questions studied by Industrial Organisation (IO) economists related to this market. The discussion is organised around three themes. The first reviews papers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395622
. With this system, users are expected to be able to make better pricing and inventory decisions by using the tools provided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669586
managers whose pricing strategies may depend on the extent of shopper price knowledge (or lack of) within the items they manage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011050066
supermarket shopping has enjoyed in competition policy discussion – and in the theoretical literature on supermarket pricing … – with its lack of prominence in the empirical IO literature on pricing incentives for products sold in supermarkets. Using a … are consistent with the multi-store multi-category framework of many theoretical models of retail pricing. We report on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051642
retail competition, higher retail bargaining power, larger retailer fixed costs, lower marginal costs of retailing, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008787794
-through rate without specific assumptions about the form of consumer demand or the conduct of a category-pricing manager. Thus, our … measurements of pass-through are not constrained by specific structure on the underlying economic model. The empirical pricing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788039
This paper is concerned with how retailers, supermarkets in particular, communicate price discounts and use unadvertised specials. A common practice for supermarkets is to communicate price deals on some products through newspaper advertisements, while communicating discounts on other products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788047